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• Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications.

  T. S. Eliot

  Simple, Way, Life Is

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• I live a fairly simple life, and that didnt change much after I sold TechCrunch in 2010. I didnt buy a new house or even a new car. The one thing I did splurge on was a boat. Nothing too fancy or large.

  Michael Arrington

  Simple, Car, House

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• If I preach against the modern artificial life of sensual enjoyment, and ask men and women to go back to the simple life epitomized in the charkha, I do so because I know that without an intelligent return to simplicity, there is no escape from our d.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Simple, Men, Intelligent

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• The most powerful life is the most simple life. The most powerful life is the life that knows where it's going, that knows where the source of strength is; it is the life that stays free of clutter and happenstance and hurriedness.

  Max Lucado

  Powerful, Simple, Life Is

  Max Lucado (2013). “Grace for the Moment: Inspirational Thoughts for Each Day of the Year”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The creditors are proving impossible to deal with and short of a sudden appearance on the scene of wealthy art patrons, we are going to be turned out of this dear little house where I led a simple life and was able to work so well. I do not know what will become of us.

  Claude Monet

  Art, Simple, House

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• We love to live a simple life... we simply love the life we live though some would say it's hard.

  Dawud Wharnsby Ali

  Simple, Simply Love, Hard

  "A Picnic of Poems: In Allah's Green Garden". Book by Dawud Wharnsby, 2011.

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• The simple life which blandly ignores all care and conflict, soon becomes flabby and invertebrate, sentimental and gelatinous.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Simple, Care, Sentimental

  Henry Van Dyke (2009). “Joy & Power: Three Messages with One Meaning”, p.30, The Floating Press

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• Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Garden, Simplicity, Sage

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.212, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty, work and rest, and living close to nature.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Life, Sweet, Simple

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (1991). “Little house in the Ozarks: a Laura Ingalls Wilder sampler : the rediscovered writings”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The Universe loves grateful people. The more grateful you are, the more you get to be grateful about. It's that simple. Life is really that simple. We make it enormously complicated, but it doesn't have to be.

  Louise Hay

  Grateful, Simple, People

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• I think a lot of people have seen me on The Simple Life and think I'm a "spoilt airhead," but I was playing a character. The producers said they wanted Nicole and I just to be crazy and funny and say outlandish things.

  Paris Hilton

  Crazy, Character, Simple

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• As a myth of national purpose and as a program for individual conduct, the simple life has, in a sense, served as the nation's conscience, reminding Americans of what the founders had hoped they would be and thereby providing a vivifying counterpoint to the excesses of materialist individualism.

  David Shi

  Simple, Would Be, Purpose

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• The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn't simple.

  Doris Janzen Longacre

  Life, Simple, Garden

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• I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.

  George Santayana

  Beautiful, Simplicity, World

  Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies "The Irony of Liberalism" (1922)

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• Father Jude Nnorom also criticized his church leaders, saying the simple lifestyle followed by Pope Francis should challenge African bishops to ask themselves.

  Sylvia Poggioli

  Father, Simple, Leader

  "Pope Francis To Focus On Social Justice Issues During Trip To Africa". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. November 24, 2015.

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• One of the most important rules for me is: Don't ever defend myself. If we could put this one principle into practice, how much more simple life would be.

  Guy Finley

  Simple, Practice, Important

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• I can't do anything about the thoughts that come into my head, but I can do something about the ones that stay there!.

  Penney Peirce

  Simple, Can Do Something, I Can

  Penney Peirce (2009). “The Intuitive Way: The Definitive Guide to Increasing Your Awareness”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• Joshua chose the simple life ... because it gave him the freedom to expand the breadth of his inner life.

  Joseph Girzone

  Simple, Simplicity, Inner Life

  Joseph F. Girzone (1997). “Joshua, the Journey Home: Includes Joshua, Joshua and the Children and Joshua in the Holy Land”, Arrowood Press

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• I lead a simple life. I get residuals. I have a family; we're doing alright.

  Robert Morse

  Simple, Alright

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think a lot of the guys I know and a lot of people I've talked to, what they want is very often what most people want, a kind of simple life, a livelihood, a family, people who care about them, people they can care about. I think vets on the whole want the same things that everybody else does.

  Kevin Powers

  Simple, Thinking, People

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• You are rich if you have enough money to satisfy all your desires. So there are two ways to be rich: you earn, inherit, borrow, beg, or steal enough money to meet all your desires; or you cultivate a simple lifestyle of few desires; that way you always have enough money.

  Dan Millman

  Simple, Two, Desire

  Dan Millman (2009). “Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives”, p.223, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I live a pretty simple life.

  Tom Selleck

  Simple

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• People just - they don't really know me. They see me on "The Simple Life," they think that's really who I am.

  Paris Hilton

  Simple, Thinking, Who I Am

  "Paris Hilton: 'I think I am a good role model'". "Today" with Ann Curry, www.today.com. August 17, 2006.

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• Ironically, when I hit adolescence, I was approached about modeling and acting all the time. And, for five years, I said, "No, I'm not interested. I want a simple life, I don't want to be in the spotlight."

  Evangeline Lilly

  Simple, Years, Acting

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• What drives me is truly inspiring people to realize they can live more creative and simple lives.

  Brit Morin

  Simple, People, Creative

  "What Drives You? 10 Top Tech Mavericks tell us what drives them and why". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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